- zeel, ii. 276; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 538;
Kramm, iv. 1221; Michiels, x. 551; Rooses (Reber), 450; Van den Branden, 1347-75, 1388.
OMNIA VANITAS, Titian, Accademia di
S. Luca, Rome; canvas, life-size. A woman
lying, half raised on one arm, on a couch,
with a vase near the shoulder and a crown
and sceptre at the feet. Perhaps by Cesari
Vecelli. Engraved by Lefèbre and by G.
Saiter. Copy in Glasgow Museum called
Danaë. Another at Kingston Lacy called
Omnia Vanitas. Drawing in sepia in Düsseldorf
Academy has some of the character
of an original Titian.—C. & C., Titian, ii.
430; Hume, Titian, 65.
OMPHALION, painter, first the slave and
afterwards the pupil of Nicias. He decorated
the walls of the Temple of Messene,
daughter of Tryopas, at Messene.—Paus., iv.
31, 11, 12; Brunn, ii. 201.
ONASIAS, painter and sculptor, about
460 B.C. Painted the First March of the Argives
against Thebes, on the walls of the
portico of the Temple of Athenia Areia at
Platæa. Polygnotus was his associate in the
decoration of the temple.—Paus., ix. 4, 2;
Brunn, ii. 25.
O'NEIL, HENRY NELSON, born in St.
Petersburg in 1817, died in London, March
13, 1880. Historic genre and portrait
painter; taken by his parents, who were
English, to London in 1823; student in
1836 at the Royal Academy, where he exhibited
his first picture, Jephthah's Daughter,
in 1839; accompanied Elmore to Italy in
1840; elected an A.R.A. in 1860. Works:
Ruth and Naomi (1844); By the Waters of
Babylon (1846); Death of Mozart (1849);
Katherine's Dream (1853); Return of the
Wanderer (1855); Eastward Ho! (1858);
Home Again (1859); Death of Raphael
(1865).—Art Journal (1880), 171; Portfolio
(1880), 71; Athen., March, 1880, 384.
ONGHERS, OSWALD, born at Mechlin
in 1628, died in Würzburg in 1706. Flemish
school; history painter, formed himself
after Van Dyck and settled in Würzburg
in 1660. Works: Assumption, Stift Haug,
Würzburg; Scoffing of Christ, Martyrdom
of St. Kilian, Cathedral, ib.—D. Kunstbl.
(1851), 414.
OOMS, KARL, born at Desschel, Antwerp,
Jan. 27, 1845. History and genre
painter, pupil of Antwerp Academy under
N. de Keyser; visited Holland, England,
Germany, France and Italy. Spanish Order
of Charles III. Works: Forbidden Reading,
Brussels Museum; Perfect Happiness; Judicial
Visit in Plantin's Printing Office at
Antwerp in 1566; Philip II. paying the Last
Honours to his Brother.—Meyer, Conv.
Lex., xix. 694; Müller, 401.
OORT. See Noort.
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OOST, JACOB VAN, the elder, born at
Bruges about 1600, died there in 1671.
Flemish school; history, genre, and portrait
painter, pupil of his brother Frans;
master of the guild in 1621; visited Italy,
where he took for his model Annibale Carracci,
although in realistic conception and
colouring remaining essentially true to his
native school. Returned to Bruges in 1629.
Painted large pictures with few figures
in a style similar to that of the Carracci.
Works: St. Augustine washing the Feet of
Christ disguised as a Pilgrim, St. Anthony
of Padua in Ecstasy, Legend in Life of St.
Anthony of Padua, Priest dictating to Clerk
(1668), Bruges Academy; Resurrection,
Cathedral, Bruges; Baptism of Christ, Martyrdom
of St. Godelive, St. Hubert invested
by Virgin and St. Ann, St. Joseph and Infant
Christ, Angels offering to Virgin Instruments
of the Passion, Christ leaving his
Mother to go to Calvary, St. John and St.
Peter, Church of our Saviour, ib.; Presentation,
St. James, ib.; Descent from the Cross
(masterpiece), Jesuits, ib.; nine pictures,
Abbey of St. Truijen, ib.; many others in several
churches, ib.; Magistrates condemning
a Criminal
(1659), City Hall,
ib.; St. Charles
Borromeo, Louvre; Holy Family and Donors
Adoring, Hermitage, St. Petersburg;
